Cloud Operations Director: Hybrid AWS & Reliability

Hirebridge; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Hirebridge is seeking a Director of Cloud Operations to lead our hybrid cloud infrastructure platform spanning AWS and colocation data center environments. This role ensures reliability, scalability, automation, and governance of foundational infrastructure services, enabling secure SaaS delivery.

The director will work with engineering leadership to drive modernization, IAM, and security/compliance across global teams while mentoring senior engineers and managers to foster ownership and

Responsibilities

• Oversee large segments of hybrid infrastructure including AWS platforms and colocation-based compute, storage, and networking environments.
• Ensure availability, scalability, and operational resilience of foundational services such as networking, storage, DNS, identity, and virtualization platforms.
• Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives supporting cloud adoption and hybrid architecture.
• Oversee AWS organizational structure, account governance, and infrastructure policy enforcement.
• Partner with FinOps and global organizational teams to drive cost visibility, optimization, and financial governance.
• Ensure compliance with infrastructure security and operational standards.
• Lead the adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Drive improvements in infrastructure provisioning, lifecycle management, and operational tooling.
• Promote engineering best practices for infrastructure development, automation and platform reliability.
• Partner with security teams to enforce IAM standards, privileged access controls, and infrastructure hardening.
• Ensure consistent patching, vulnerability management, and access governance across cloud and datacenter environments.
• Collaborate with SRE to ensure infrastructure platforms support reliability goals and service level objectives.
• Work with Product Engineering leaders to align infrastructure capabilities with product growth and architectural evolution.
• Manage and mentor engineering managers and/or senior engineers.
• Drive hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Foster a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Job description

Hirebridge is seeking a Director of Cloud Operations to lead our hybrid cloud infrastructure platform spanning AWS and colocation data center environments. This role ensures reliability, scalability, automation, and governance of foundational infrastructure services, enabling secure SaaS delivery.

The director will work with engineering leadership to drive modernization, IAM, and security/compliance across global teams while mentoring senior engineers and managers to foster ownership and